“If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.”
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
“Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.”